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I don't think the problem is that niche though. Even outside of accessibility concerns, there are plenty of times I've tried to use websites on smartphones within intermittent internet access — e.g. on the London underground checking in to a flight on the way to the airport or ordering a pizza when coming home late from work.

In both scenarios, I'm trying to complete my task as quickly as possible while I still have a good connection. A simple HTML page (with JS layered on top for fancier stuff) would be plenty to get the job done. Instead you get hindered by sites that aren't optimised in any way for slow devices or slow internet.

Heard that Facebook before had "2G Tuesdays" where the product teams throttled their internal net speeds to 2G while browsing the site to see what it was like ­— that should be the standard for dev teams. The trouble is so many things are designed and tested by people on T1 broadband in a downtown office, but that's not the set-up of a majority of their users.
The reason they are retiring the A-10 is that the airframe cannot be upgraded with the power systems needed to support modern defensive and offensive systems. Modern combat aircraft are giant electrical power systems with an aircraft wrapped around them. When the A-10 was designed half a century ago, this was not a requirement and there is no way to retrofit it.

Modern air defense systems are explicitly engineered to very effectively kill things like the A-10, and it can't support modern counter-measures because of these limitations. It still works in environments for which it was designed i.e. absent modern air defense systems.
I like the bureaucratic way you put this like it means anything. Especially since poverty is arbitrarily defined.
OK .. so when price of flowers goes up prior to Valentine's day, that's inflation?
There are some base requirements for market manipulation that are not met here. Namely, lying. You're allowed to tell your "friends" they should buy a stock.
So it seems the issue is that people have borrowing agreements that can be recalled early (seems like it functions like a margin call in a way). Call it half-naked shorting, I guess. Still seems risky. I feel like they could've just bought call options and called it a day instead. Maybe that's too naive or call options are hard to find/pricey for Gamestop?

That still doesn't explain how you know folks aren't naked shorting. Maybe you can read the trades?
Except when you build such a large war industry that stopping the wars isn't really an option, which is where we are now.
Dealerships in the US are often positioned to take advantage of tax laws, which means they're often placed outside of city limits in an inconvenient and less-traveled area that doesn't have to pay the extra 1-2% city sales tax on the vehicles.

Good for pricing, terrible for convenience.
That's because it's a new phenomenon. We'll get used to it.
If you look at the fourth table, the 15W config allows for 6 seconds of turbo at 42W. Which probably explains why the benchmark isn't very different between the 35W and 15W configurations. The processor probably just draws 42W for the duration of the benchmark in both cases. I don't know if comparisons to the Apple M1 are apples-to-apples (no pun intended) which tops out at like 20-25W.

That said, AMD's offering in this space is very impressive and really makes you question what Intel has been doing the last three years.
Yeah, it's entirely possible to buy actually good furniture from IKEA. Even their MDF/veneered stuff will last a while if you're careful moving it.
The world does not need more minefields. This idea is bad, and you should feel bad.
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I had never previously considered how website performance of individual subreddits might differ. I'm not a web dev, so it's probably not like an interesting engineering matter, but it is kinda interesting to witness this first-hand as a user. At least the rest of the site seems to be working ok.
> What is it about p2p that made it not doable

Well, everything?

Nothing about mobile devices is suited for p2p. Mobile devices are the exact opposite of what you want for p2p to function smoothly. The devices are always going offline, they move around and acquire new IP addresses, they can't run things in the background without significant battery drain. And probably most important: NAT and routing issues. This isn't the '90s where two computers can just freely talk across the internet on any port they want to.

At the very minimum you would need a centralized discovery server. At that point you may as well scrap the whole idea anyway.
But that is precisely the point. Trust in authority vs direct observation, and the shifting of the Overton window to create reduced trust in direct observations vs authoritative direction.
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>I'm sure these companies do. When I'm interviewing, potential is what I weight most in a candidate.

Amazon has the most well known example:

>When Amazon launched the hiring plan for tech job candidates in 1999, it was called the ‘barkeeper programme’. But that name implied maintaining a hiring standard, when actually the programme is about raising the standard with each hire. Every person hired should be better than 50 percent of those currently in similar roles.

https://blog.aboutamazon.eu/working-at-amazon/what-is-a-bar-...

But that's pretty standard across the FANGs and trickles down into other tech companies. They're not interested in the 20% performer that might turn into a 50%+ one. They expect you to go work somewhere else, develop into that 50%+ programmer, and try again.

>Not to be an ass, but are you sure you are showing the potential you think you are?

Yes, I'm sure because I received positive feedback on a couple rounds before bombing out. I (according to them) did well on 3/4 coding challenges, terribly on the 4th, and bombed the system design. They chose to give more weight to that 4th test and the system design than the 3 good performances. And they're sitting on 200 open engineering roles for a not that big company.
If you’re loud and profane in a bar and disturbing the tenants, the bouncer will muzzle you. You seem to be arguing that the bouncer should not be allowed to do that.

You seem to be mixing up “free speech” in the constitution and the normal to and fro negotiations and tensions between people. In private life people need to be allowed to act against speech that they find harmful.
No, I'm not arguing that more people saw footage of those two incidents versus the universe of gore preceding 2005; rather, I'm arguing that gore is far more prevalent and accessible after 2005 than before. The images that we saw before were generally censored of gore--we saw night-vision imagery of bombs raining down on Baghdad, but we didn't see the actual death. Similarly, we saw the towers fall, but most of the actual death was censored (the worst I can recall were people falling from the towers from such a great distance that they appeared to be specs).
Toyota and Honda pushed hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for years

Toyota wanted someone else to pay for the infrastructure.

California has 27 hydrogen stations up today.[1] There's not much interest in building more.

[1] https://m.cafcp.org/
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Not "saving it" but "saving it from short seller pressure". The stock was previously heavily shorted, to the point GME was reaching bankruptcy. That is no longer the case.
5 years is still infinitely more than 0 which would soon become the natural life span of dairy cows if veganism won a complete victory and everyone suddenly lost all interest in beef, milk and leather.

In terms of interesting things that are not mentioned, I'd really much rather hear what this style of farming consumes more of as this sheds light on whether it has any applicability beyond supplying luxury goods. We are told 90% less antibiotics, half the energy and so on and so forth; well all these cost money so presumably if they use much less energy and antibiotics per same yield and have not rolled up the industry there must be valuable things they consume more of. What are they, and is there realistic hope they can be rendered less harmful than consuming 10x the antibiotics and 2x the energy etc?
the financial machine is too busy smashing crypto :(
Is there any hard evidence on Citron or Melvin closing their positions?

Would be an absolute scandal if the papers were running along on some unconfirmed - even false - story, essentially participating in potential market manipulation.
There is a difference.

Planes and schools are by design positive things.

Social media by design is at best neutral.

Social media is designed to benefit its owners and its customers (ad sellers). At best social media is designed to entertain its users, but the big caveat is that it does it through whatever means necessary. And that's a big caveat. Because at the end of the day, it's an online casino. And we regulate casinos to hell and back.
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If you go to a showroom and get offended when it does its job it sounds like you really shouldn't be going to a showroom at all.
Oh heck, let's just call it a spoon.
Stopped reading your comment after the first sentence because that’s all I needed to know.
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Interana uses lz4 for compressing certain data types, namely list-type data. We found it offers the best decompression speed for reasonably good compression ratio. We actually use the high compression variant.
A few thoughts here.

First, the short sellers getting taken to the wood shed absolutely deserve it for placing such an idiotic bet. The short positions outstanding are 150% of the available shares even today. Its a short squeeze even more than its WSB pumping it. And apparently the short sellers just keep coming back for more. They can play that game if they want and I dont feel bad that they lose all their money.

Second, theres no such thing as "short seller pressure". The act of shorting does not lower the price of a stock mechanically. You could argue they are forming a negative narrative but I would call that fair game. You're allowed to say a business is crappy.

Third, WSB pumping and dumping stocks is scammy and definitely not good for the markets. Thats just a mechanism where the early pumpers clean out all the idiots who follow their trade.
I am not sure how big of a deal this is.

The main use case for EV is short distance daily trips where you can charge at home.

Going on a long distance trip, a gas powered vehicle is superior. With gas, especially with cell phone gps, you basically need no planning or forethought. You just drive, and if you think you are runnning low, you just look for a gas station along your route.

So yes, Tesla has a vastly superior charging network compared to to the others, but it is still vastly inferior to the gas station network.
Wallstreetbets user activity is very similar to the_donald and weekendgunnit. Personally I think hordes of chat bots are instigating this. I fully suspect reddit to come in with a heavy hand and shutdown this game. Next you will see something spin up at either wallstreetbets.win or wsb.win. The party will continue but not nearly as hard as it has been over the past week.
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I've been thinking of doing that for a lot of things. Bills, logins, etc.
Captain ClickSaver here, with a brief run-down of what is the typical shit-posting contrarian "EVs aren't really green!!!111!" article. First, let's look at the opening sentences/headlines:

Electric vehicles are supposed to be green, but the truth is a bit murkier

To paraphrase John Goodman in The Big Lebowski: "greener than your ICE, Dude." But the only murkiness is from the shit-stirring of your article, Mr./Ms. I-Had-A-Deadline-to-Meet.

Mining lithium for batteries, plus how they're charged, can affect an EV’s impact on environment

Lithium not delivered by rainbow-farting unicorns, EV owners shocked at the news and disappointed that lithium mining is not as clean as oil and the snow-like purity of its extraction.

An electric vehicle may not have a tailpipe, but it still has a carbon footprint.

At this point I quit reading. If there actually is a nugget of information to be gleaned in this article, I'm not mining this article this article to find it. I mean, I get it, EV owners can be a bit over-the-top and maybe manufacturers are over-promising. Maybe. But is it really necessary that every news outlet publish articles such as this to "balance" it out?
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In the readme it says:

> We want to contribute to the world of free, secure communication without fear of censorship and surveillance.

But their website does not work without allowing ampproject? Or so I thought! Apparently after 5s or so it does load content and displays it.
Still kind of weird for them to go with amp stuff. Unfitting their goals.
Well I work in financial services and I care about people including retail investors which disproves your point. Everything is not black and white. There are of course people in the sector who dont care. There are a mix of views.....
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I don't think the fact that I can't give you an off-the-cuff but brilliant strategic plan in this Hacker News comment describing how Elon Musk could best structure his charitable foundation is a real indictment of my assertion that such a plan could be put together. :) As I mentioned in a previous comment to somebody else, I recognize that "giving away" incredible amounts of money is easier said than done -- but that doesn't mean it's not possible. Again, as I mentioned in that comment, MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos's ex-wife) appears to be doing a startlingly good job of it. So is Bill Gates, as you mentioned. There are others.

There are all sorts of conversations to be had about extreme wealth, but it really does strike me as at least reasonable for part of that conversation to be around changing the culture of expectation for billionaires.
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> For all its faults, peer-review is still the best mechanism to keep science in right track.

Peer review is often effective, but it can't reliably block fraudulent publications like those described in the posted article. Most bad papers are rejected, but the authors can always try again at another journal. Any paper will probably get published somewhere, eventually, even if only in a Hindawi or MDPI journal. The journals aren't accountable to anyone, and as long as they have enough good articles to serve as cover, academics will need to pay for access because citing relevant prior work is obligatory. The publishing system is very weak against fraud.
DFV is an interesting one.

As far as I can tell from the comments on Reddit, most people are holding because DFV is holding. So, I expect, that soon as he sells it is likely that the price will collapse.

That said, the volume that DFV holds is not very big (I read around .2%), so it will likely go unnoticed. As long as DFV doesn't post that he's out, the rocket keeps going up.

I don't doubt that DFV's investment is real, but he might already be out without anyone knowing.

edit: typo
Agreed. I don't care too much about the charge time or cost myself as even with the hiked rates, charging is generally comparable or cheaper than a gas fill up (which only strikes on road trips for me).

What I really care about is how much time I'm interacting with the charge equipment. It sucks to be standing outside in the freezing cold waiting for your card to maybe get accepted only to find out that for some dumb reason the machine decides to decline it (forcing you to use an app which you likely don't have).

There's no reason all EV charging can't be a better experience than gas charging. There's already a data line established when you plug in (Both CCS and Chademo have data lines) so it should be beyond trivial for there to be a standard payment scheme (It should have existed from the start).
More like a political disinformation campaign for stocks. Same formula different goals.
That's a customizable setting in Flow. You can have it launch your default browser or open it internally.

There's also the pros and cons of auth/cookie isolation. You'll need to log in to Slack again. But if you use it for, say, Facebook it will work like the isolation feature in FF.
It's easier and more seamless, but it's also a lot slower to fill up. I guess that's why the car has Netflix...
Well, that’s the thing with being ostracized. Reputable people don’t want anything to do with you, and so you’re left with only the disreputable ones.

It’s like there’s a whole generation of engineers that don’t realize that you can actually buy a computer instead of just rent someone else’s.
It is not possible to charge a Leaf at a Tesla station. Tesla uses proprietary connectors instead of the industry standard J1772/CCS connectors.
> rounding error, not “serious” money

I think Gates and Musk have both shown that there's an effectiveness multiple between a single, informed donor and the government as far as funding is concerned.

Government funding is larger in magnitude, but can't be targeted to the same degree and has blind spots.
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Gme is approaching bankruptcy because they have an unprofitable business, not because of the price of the stock
I agree - I feel like one really important misconception to set aside is lumping "communication" in with "social media".

From a teenager's perspective, Instagram and TikTok are a lot worse for your mental health than say, Snapchat and iMessage.

In addition, for the queer community example - I'd say the perfect parallel for today would be Discord. Anyone can find a community and make friends on Discord, but it's probably not 5% as damaging to mental health because it's a communication based platform
> Existing customers with up to 25 users can renew for one more year at the existing $4.00 rate, or get a free upgrade to Premium along with a staggered discount at the next renewal: $6.00 on year 1, $9.00 year 2 and $15.00 for year 3.

This seems reasonable...
Also WordPerfect for DOS! We had an old XT that was "my" computer, and I did a lot of homework on it. Pretty sure it was WP5.1, which would have come out in '89, which matches the timeline pretty well (I think we got that computer around '92 or so).
Oh My Science!

I don't understand where this ideal that Science is infallible and beyond corruption, influence, and politics comes from.
> I just don't see the wisdom of that approach.

This was never intentional. When TSMC was founded, their business model was nuts from a Western perspective: why would a company produce chips for someone else, the money is in the design and the brand, not the manufacturing. The market for this started when companies like Intel and TI wanted to derive some profits from unused manufacturing capacity.

The zeitgeist of American business over the past 40 or so years has been that brand is what people buy. Manufacturing is expensive, low-margin, and is best outsourced. Thus, there's been a slow, steady march towards design here, build somewhere else. Not just in the silicon space, but in everything from food processing to plastic tchotchkes.

That is a perfectly valid model, if there is a lot of competition in the manufacturing space. But now TSMC is so far ahead of the competition, and nobody expected that. Sometimes being the contrarian is where the profits are.
> Twitter isn't a liberal platform, and definitely has a political bias towards the progressive left.

[citation needed] seeing as your previous example fell flat.

> > Sidenote: The Federalist itself got its account banned from twitter for spreading covid misinformation.

> Thanks for proving my point

I fail to see your point. They spread misinformation that would get people killed, and were banned for it.

I've not in my 30 years on the internet spent more than a passing moment on a BBS, forum, social media that let anything go, nor would I want to as I've seen what it devolves into.

You have not displayed any basis for your assertion that the moderation enforcement on twitter is biased.

What point did I prove for you?
It’s not that it’s so hard to set up Redmine, just again that GitHub has strong network effects and a lot of convenience. I can go star stuff and come back later. Bookmarking a random open source project that self-hosts and hoping it’s still there when I need it is less convenient.
Sometimes, maybe. But more generally, if you judge strictly along price performance and allow nothing for the subjective... I think IKEA/mass production comes out on top.

Great carpentry is valuable because people like it, because it's beautiful, maybe because it's impressive. The table will hold the dinner just fine without quality joinery.
Ha! Maybe the WSB traders should go get a "real" job at a hedge fund where they can do the same insane gambling, only now it's "professional."

How do you think the recession happened? It wasn't retail investors gambling on the housing market.
Hard to swallow pill: wsb just merely launched a fashion. Other funds rallied to tank Melvin Capital.

Retail is still not that influent. The fact that hedge fund follow wsb is.
You cannot charge any non-Tesla car from a Tesla connector. Tesla uses a proprietary connector and signaling protocol.
I concur. I wrote a web interface for a crappy 20yo DSP last year, the thing doesn't even have an MMU and only 32MB of RAM. I basically put all the code in the browser, on the device there's only a very simple C HTTP server that serves the static files and blobs of data. In the end the UI looks fairly modern and responsive even though the backend is potato hardware.

I wouldn't say that client-side JS is underrated though. If anything I'd argue that the modern web heavily abuses it. Try browsing twitter or youtube with Javascript disabled for instance. The site simply won't work.
They're not at odds.

It is possible for the people at the bottom to have better housing, better food, better education, and better health, while the people at the top still enjoy a vastly disproportionately greater increase in income and wealth.

With disproportionate gains and different spending priorities, you won't see consistent inflation across all kinds of goods. Because the inflation is concentrated at the top, the people at the bottom won't get priced out of the things they need. They're not getting priced out of anything they couldn't have afforded 20 years ago.

A nice house that cost $100k in 1999 costs $200k today.

A fabulous house that cost $500k in 1999 costs $5,000k today.
Right, seems like a similar problem to banks and leverage. People can short more in aggregate than exists the same way the money multiplier exists for banks. But there are bank runs and it's built on trust, so that's risky too and we make people hold on to a certain amount to cover what they lend.

I guess I'd just prefer they use call options to cover the shorts instead of borrowing. No leverage or multiplier effect there. Gets too high, just execute the call. Am I also missing something there?
What makes you compare WSB users to far right facists?
There is definitely a Tesla Level 2 -> CCS adapter, but no such luck for Superchargers. Not sure about Chademo, which is what a lot of the Leaf line uses.
Any evidence to back up the bot speculation? Normal social media memey exuberance seems sufficient to explain this to me.
This feels like automation would have great benefits for these types of things.

Instead of relying on people getting the right technique, you load in their program, dump chemicals into the right vials, then let it run and check the results
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